concatenating 2 text columns in a data.frame
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:44:28AM -0500, Shaun Grannis wrote:
I'm trying to concatenate values from two columns in a data frame. For example, I have the following data.frame: C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 A B *F C* Q G H *I J* T K D *R S* E P L *M N* O I'd like to concatenate text from columns C3 and C4, to yield either a list or vector, like so: NewCol FC IJ RS MN
assuming your data frame is named foo: foo$NewCol <- paste(foo$C3, foo$C4, sep='') cu Philipp
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